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By Novus Homo [i.e. W. J. Courthope]

Courthope, William John (1842-1917)

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I dreamed of Beauty whilst I slept,
The scales had fallen from my sight.
Waking in rapture soon I wept
To find the vision vanished quite.

There hovered still a golden cloud,
And faith was strong that I should see;
But sense composed me in a shroud,
And visions came no more to me.